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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Pocito in Argentina

Posted by admin on November 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.2701S, -68.6365WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Pocito in Argentina. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 16:35:04 / November 29, 2017 @ 4:35 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:35:04 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 116.48 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6365 West, latitude -32.2701 South, depth = 116.48 km. Id of earthquake: us2000bvwh. Event ids that are associated: us2000bvwh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Martín, Albardón, San Martín. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Juan (c. 447 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Chimbas (c. 73 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 43 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Pocito (c. 41 000 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km S of Pocito, Argentina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2701° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km S of Pocito, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-29 16:35:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-29 23:12:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 356 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000bvwh Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvwh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvwh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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